Steve Mayes | The Oregonian/OregonLive

About Me:

I'm a veteran reporter covering Clackamas County news since 2001. These days I focus mainly on the courts and some of the strange things that happen out this way. Frequently found drinking coffee @ Singer Hill Cafe.

Hot rod enthusiast John Bowdon bought a 1947 Mercury decades ago. As Bowdon, 75, deals with cancer, long-time friends shifted into gear to finish the project and put him behind the well of the souped-up convertible he's been working on since 1979.

The wife of Daniel James Seale, 27, who has been charged with murdering Michelle Leigh Walker, 41, does not believe that he committed the crime. She agreed to be interviewed on camera only if her face wasn't shown.